A fancy wedding brings out the worst in nearly everyone in this comedy from France. Vincent (Jermie Renier) and Berengere...
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2010
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2007
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Camilla Tresillian
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2007
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Augustin Dos Santos, the cheerfully eccentric struggling actor played by Jean-Chretien Sibertin-Blanc in Augustin and...
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2006
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French filmmaker Josée Dayan directs the erotic drama Les Liaisons Dangereuses, based on the 18th century novel by...
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Rosemonde
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2003
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A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and...
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2002
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A screwball comedy that covers one week in the lives of a group of Parisians, Ca Ira Mieux Demain relies on chance encounters...
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2000
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A comically accented historical drama with culinary appeal, this film introduces us to Pascal Ichac (Pierre Richard), a...
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1996
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Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third...
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1995
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1992
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1991
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1989
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The great-mother
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1989
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Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking...
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Grandmother
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1987
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1987
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In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now...
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Mme. Krantz
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1986
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Françoise Canavaggia (Danielle Darrieux) heads back to Toulon in 1963 with murderous plans for the people who now inhabit the...
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Fracoise Canavaggia
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1983
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Margot Langlois
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1982
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A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people...
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1979
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In this caper comedy, Jean Gabin plays Lambert, an escaped convict in search of some robbery money he hid a long time ago. He...
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Christina
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1976
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It is difficult enough for Marion (Danielle Darrieux) to be an actress who is rapidly approaching the has-been stage; after...
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Marion
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1975
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1973
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This situation comedy finds a married couple from Paris longing for the bucolic existence of a simple country life. The...
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Mother
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1969
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This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring...
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1968
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Alice (Danielle Darrieux), a widowed Frenchwoman, goes on a vacation to Italy. Upon her return, she relates the particulars...
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Alice
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1968
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Julia Danielle Darrieux is a woman who marries a younger man in this pre-World War II drama. The newlyweds settle down and...
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Julia
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1967
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Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success...
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1967
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Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been...
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1966
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Bruno (Michele Piccolo) returns for some strange reason to the small French town where he was an informant to the Nazis in...
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Helene
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1965
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In this French comedy, a toy inventor travels to the factory of his childhood friend, now an industrial magnate, and tries...
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Edith Rollo
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1964
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Judith
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1964
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This light comedy finds a troubled attorney the focus of a woman's murder plot. He answers newspaper ads of women seeking...
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Edwige
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1963
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This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed,...
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Berthe Heon
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1963
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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Mother
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1962
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Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in...
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Marie-Laure
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1961
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A young Susannah York had her first lead role in this drama about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood. When her mother...
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Madame Zisi
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1961
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Les Bras de la nuit is another of the typical love vs. duty stories in which a police inspector, Landais (Roger Hanin) is...
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Daniele
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1961
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A police inspector on the trail of the murderer of a nightclub owner falls for the dead man's drug-addicted mistress. He...
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1961
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Five murder suspects are brought forward by investigators for their motives. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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This is an uninspired murder mystery directed by Jacques-Gérard Cornu about the unfortunate and unnatural demise of a...
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Gabrielle
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1960
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In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a...
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Jeanne
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1959
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Danielle Darrieux stars in this Belgian chiller as a songstress whose obsessively jealous husband suddenly dies. Feeling free...
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Eve Faugeres
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1959
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This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Nine men and...
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Marie
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1959
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Though the title of this French drama translates to Seventh Heaven, it bears no relation to the classic 1927 silent film of...
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Brigitte
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1958
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Catherine
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1958
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Director Giles Grangier adapted the screenplay of Les Desordre et la Nuit from his own novel. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a...
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Therese
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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Monique
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1958
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Mme. Hedouin
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1957
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This Franco-Japanese production made the American TV rounds as Typhoon Over Nagasaki. Jean Marais heads the cast as Pierre, a...
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Francoise
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1957
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1956
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The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde...
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Olympias
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1956
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Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous...
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Agnes Sorel
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1956
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L'Affair des Poisons is an unusual murder yarn, set during the reign of France's King Louis XIV. Danielle Darrieux stars as...
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Mme. De Mntespan
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1955
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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It took over thirty years for D. H. Lawrence's "forbidden" novel Lady Chatterly's Lover to make it to the big screen,...
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Constance Chatterley
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1955
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1955
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Constance
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1954
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Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director...
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Mme. Louise de Renal
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1954
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Escalier de Service (Service Entrance) charts the misadventures of gorgeous maidservant Marie-Lou (Etchika Choreau). After...
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Noelle
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1954
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Genevieve
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1954
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Countess Louise de . . .
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1953
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Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession is one of the lesser-known works of prolific French filmmaker Autant-Lara. Stuck in a loveless...
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Janine
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1953
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Christine
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1952
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Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of...
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Anna
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1952
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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Rosa [The House Of Madame Tellier]
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1952
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Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with...
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Marie Devarone
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1951
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La Verite sur Bebe Donge is another "socko" pure-entertainment vehicle from prolific French filmmaker Henri Decoin. The film...
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Bebe
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1951
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Set in fin de siecle Paris, La Maison Bonnadieu stars Bernard Blier as a middle-aged bourgeois husband named Felix. Much to...
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Gabrielle
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1951
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An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series...
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Emma Breitkopf
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Amelie
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1949
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Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas was adapted for the screen by no less than Jean Cocteau. The title character,...
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Queen
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1948
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1948
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Arabella Delvaire
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1947
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French film favorite Danielle Darrieux had only recently cleared herself of a wartime "collaboration" charge when she starred...
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1945
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1945
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1942
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a lonely orphan answers a singles ad in a paper and then slips out of the orphanage to meet the man...
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Micheline Chevassu
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1941
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1939
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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Nicole de Cortillon
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1938
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1938
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Danielle Darrieux stars as a scatter-brained college coed who miraculously becomes a lawyer. Her father would prefer that she...
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Jacqueline Serval
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1938
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Lydia
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1938
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Incredibly, Maurice Tourneur's 1938 romantic tragedy Katia has been designated as "delightful" by more than one film...
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1938
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Mademoiselle Ma Mere was adapted for the screen from the stage farce by Louis Verneuil. The title translates as My Mother is...
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Jacqueline
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1937
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This French musical comedy was based on the stage play Mademoiselle Mozart, written by Yvan Noe, who also co-directed the...
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Denise
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1937
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1936
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The Club de Femmes (Girl's Club) of the title refers to a Parisian boarding house, populated in its entirety by beautiful,...
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Claire
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1936
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Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown...
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Marie Vetsera
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1936
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Marina
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1936
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Though the Czechoslovakian film industry had been "nationalized" by the Nazis after the 1938 invasion, a few pre-war...
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Youki
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1936
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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The legendary Billy Wilder made his debut as a director with this comedy, shot in France (in collaboration with Alexander...
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Jeanette
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1934
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1934
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Released abroad as The Slump is Over, this backstage comedy pokes gentle fun at the Depression-era French bourgeoisie....
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Nicole
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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1932
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Coquecigrole was adapted from a novel by Alfred Marchard. Max Dearly stars as a washed-up stage actor who unofficially adopts...
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1932
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1932
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Based on a novel by Helen Nimirosky, The Ball was filmed simultaneously in German and French-language versions. The French...
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Daughter
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1931
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